To:L. B. KAMENEV

Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

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24.III.1921

ComradeKamenev:

Badaich[1]has earnestly requested me to help them in
having the old Yakunchikov estate and the Khodynski
farmstead transferred to the
M.C.C.[2]

Heargues that they are close to Moscow. This would
give Muscovites a vegetable garden and a farm.

Hesays that the Gubernia Land Department will handle
the supplies itself.

Badaichrefers to the good experience gained in
Petrograd, where a farm was run on model lines.

Inprinciple: the city’s interestshouldhave an effect
on the “diligence”. Badayev is right in principle.

Orwe could do this: let Badaich have it, and give the
Gubernia Land Department aformalorder: you mustnot
lag behindwithyourstate farms, and make a comparison
in the autumn.

P.S.In general, press forward with the
vegetablegarden campaign. Should we raise this in the Council of
Labour and Defence? To provide the pressure?

[1]A.Y.Badayev.—Ed.

[2]MoscowConsumers’ Commune.—Ed.